AN: Hello, I would like to welcome you all to Chapter one of Soldiers Luck and I hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 1: Brutal Starts

Across the planet of Darkine XI's orbit was clear. The planet was full of life, people laughed and played. They lived out their daily un-interesting lives. The war had been over for 6 years and 5 months now. Everyone was happy for finally some peace.

That was until one of the remnants of the Covenant came...

they came like lightning. one moment the space around the planet was clear and empty. Next 26 Covenant ships appeared of all sizes came in though slip-space. The defenders were outmatched. Yet, with bravery, they held off the covenant for civilians to evacuate. Over half of the population was evacuated before the defenders were destroyed. The Covenant ships began to glass the planet, thousands of cries for help fell of death ears as they were destroyed.

The leader of the remnant fraction stood on the bridge of the fleets capital ship. The leader was a Elite clad in purple general armour. His mandibles moved in what would be classed as a smile to Humans. He watched as his ships began to glass the planet; a small frigate passed in front of the large window he stared out of.

But then it all changed

The frigate that passed in front, just as it hit the middle of the window, blew up into a ball of purple flames. The Elite looked towards the left side of the window and gave a small growl

Out of the darkness of the planets moon a ships came out. It's large cannon on its front firing into the fleet as it charged towards them. On the front sides of the ship it had the name.

UNSC Ashes To Ashes

The ship sped towards the Covenant fleet. The ship was the last of the defence fleet. It had not taken part in the beginning defence of the planet as they were on the other side of the solar system. The ship was a Charon-class light frigate, mainly used for troop deployment and planetary defence.

The captain of the ship, Captain Samantha Cross, stared out as her ship ploughed, full speed, into the Covenant fleet. She gripped her chair as the MAC cannon of the ship fired repeatedly into the enemy ships. Her ship was not the strongest, or the fastest of the UNSC, but it's crew had the spirit to fight them off. "KEEP FIRING!" She ordered as the point defence systems aboard the ship began to attempt to defend the ship from the Covenant, now realizing they were under attack, return fire. The ship shook as it was hit with enemy fire. She slammed her fist into her chairs arm as she saw the remnant of the Covenant glassing the planet. "Send us away, Cole Protocol is active!" she ordered as her crew nodded and followed her orders. She knew the battle was lost, she could tell the planet was dead. Yet she also knew that they would return, return with a fleet that will be able to take back the planet. The ships MAC gun fell silent as a large purple portal appeared in front of them. She slammed the back of her head on the back of her chair as she shut her eyes and breathed heavily as they went into slip-space. She sighed as she thought about all the people, Innocent people, that died on the planet, who died protecting the evacuees, the people who died watching as the remnant of the Covenant Elite stabbed them through the chest.

"Ma'am! Massive energy spike coming from the engines. I've... I've never seen anything like this!" one of the bridges ensigns reported. "It's increasing at a rapid rate! At this rate the ship might tear itself apart!"

"What's causing it!" Samantha demanded

"I don't know ma'am, wait!" The ensign pressed a few buttons on his console. "Ma'am, its decreasing."

"Good, take us out of slip-space." the ordered.

"Yes ma'am!" The crew quickly got to work

"What... What am I looking at?" Samantha asked, a picture of confusion on her face.

"That... is earth..." One of her ensigns, a female, stated. Outside the window was a planet that looked exactly like the Human home world, yet with out any of the ODP platforms or defence fleet. "This cant be right. We plotted a random course. It should have taken us to a random planet."

"Maybe that power fluctuation had something to do with it?" The ensign from before stated.

"What?! Are you saying we might have just randomly jumped back to the Human home world! That's a one in a-" The Female ensign paused for a moment. "A number that i cant even think of, but its BIG!" She stated

"No, I'm saying is that we have travelled to another dimension. It clearly is Earth but it seems we may have wound up in a world with no space travel as of late."

"Maybe..." Samantha said, still slightly awed at the planet. She quickly shook her head and turned to one of her ensigns. "I want a ODST team ready and on a pelican in 15 minutes. I want to know what's going on down there."

Two ODST's sat in one of the Ashes To Ashes barracks. One was a young man, at the age of 19, had dark blue eyes and short golden hair. His bunk buddy was a girl of the same age with light golden eyes and fiery red hair that went below her shoulders. Both at the moment were putting on their respective armours. "So what we going in against exactly?" The man asked as he clamped a shin pad onto his leg.

"We heading on pelican to check out the planet. Standard stuff." The girl replied

"We never get anything standard. If their sending us in then it means that either there's something wrong or this planet is damn important." The man replied

"I've already heard rumours from the marines on board that its a Halo ring."

"A Halo ring!" The man stood up, and subsequently fell back on his bed when he hit his head on the top bunk. "Lily, you can't be serious."

"Calm down Jacob, its only rumours." The girl, now known as Lily, nodded before looking at her wrist watch. "We need to be at the pelican in 5 minutes so hurry up." She smiled as she began to tie her hair into a pony tail.

"Done." The man, now recognized as Jacob, grasped the ODST standard issue helmet that sat next to him on his bed and placed it on his head. His visor de-polerizing to show his face. "Lets get a move on." He got up and began to walk towards the door that lead out of the barracks. Lily quickly finished putting her hair up and jogging up next to Jacob, putting on her helmet at the same time.

Minutes later and the ODST's flew towards the planet in a pelican. The ODST's were known for taking SOEIV ,or drop-pods as many called them, and dropping onto the planet. However from what they were told that it was a clean mission, so no items were to be left behind. Jacob cleaned the top of his rocket launcher with a small cloth while Lily checked her scope's range. Three other ODST's were apart of their squad. The commander of the squad returned from talking to pilots. "Ok, eta is 2 minutes. Get ready hell Jumpers."

Hell jumpers, Jacob hadn't been called a Hell jumper in a long time. It was rarely used when your apart of a garrison. He looked up from his cleaning of his launchers barrel to Lily, who gave him a playful smirk that he quickly returned.

The pelican stopped and the large back door opened for the 5 ODST's as they quickly sprinted off the pelican and held their weapons up and ready. The pelican chose a good place to land. It was in a clearing a large wood. Bushes and trees covered the area so no one would see the pelicans landing. "I'll be back in 5 hours for pick up. Better be here." The pilot said over the radio.

"Copy." The squads commander stated into the radio and quickly motioned for the squad to push away from the pelican and begin to scout the area. As they moved on the pelican lifted off and shot back up into the air, highly likely it was going back to the Ashes To Ashes. Jacob sprinted forwards and quickly ducked behind a fallen tree log.

'One of those days...' He thought as the squad continued through the forest.

"Now that's something you done see every day..." Lily remarked as the squad looked from a bush at the edge of the forest. They were staring at a small village, no more than 10-11 buildings that made it up. But what really shocked them was the fact it was a Human village. "Looks like they still use wagons." They all looked to see a wagon start to ride away from the village.

"Warrior 5-6 do you copy?" Their radios buzzed instantly.

"This is Warrior 5-6, go ahead command." The squads commander said.

"Air recon from pelican Kilo 7-9 tells us that the place you landed in is surrounded by 3 large walls, the area you landed in was between the 2nd and 3rd wall. Recon also shows large settlements through out the walls interiors and it seems they have abandoned the areas between the 1st and 2nd walls. Reasons still not clear."

"Copy command, be advised that we have found one of the settlements and that it is of Human origin, I'll say again, Human origin." The commander stated back, the radio kept quite for about 10 seconds before it came to life yet again.

"Copy that Warrior 5-6, proceed as planned and do not make contact with the people who live there." And then the line died.

"You heard command, continue as planned and do not make contact." The commander ordered as the squad nodded. Jacob looked to Lily, who gave him a slightly worried face.

"What's wrong?" He asked

"I don't like this." She replied "Why are their Humans here if the planets meant to be un-inhabited."

"Maybe their insurgents?" Jacob questioned

"No, they would have far better tech than this." She replied as she looked to the floor then to her sniper. "Let's just continue with the mission." She urged her team-mate to continue the mission.

"Fine, but we're not done." Jacob stated

"Trouble in paradise." One of the squad members muttered to another.

"Shut it uplink." Jacob dead-panned, Everyone thought that Jacob and Lily dated because they hung around with each other so much, However they were quite wrong. They had known each other since the age of 5 and had been good friends ever since. They joined the UNSC together and 18 and became two of the youngest soldiers ever to be enlisted into the ODST's.

4 hours later and the squad had found a quite good deal about the human's living in the area. They lived in something called 'Wall Rose' and they lived with in it to defend themselves from giants called 'Titans'. The ODST's never found this out by asking however, they learn it from over hearing conversation about it and from listening in on a class learning about it. All the information was instantly recorded and sent back to the Ashes To Ashes. Jacob and Lily themselves had found out that some of the kids who went to the school, all of them 15, talked about how in two months they were joining the cadets and training in the army. When Jacob and Lily heard this it made their blood boil. 15 year old's allowed to join the army? In their opinion that was ethically wrong on almost every level and if this planet was, and it isn't, a UNSC controlled planet then the people who allowed it would have been jailed already for allowing 15 year old's to join the army.

Lily and Jacob sat down as the Pelican took them back to the Charon-class frigate. They had called the pelican early due to the fact they had completed their mission already. They stared at the floor, the pelican silent with only the noise of the engines being heard. That was until Jacob broke the silence.

"What are we going to do?" He asked to no one in particular

"I don't know, its the captains decision anyway." Lily responded, her sniper sat on her lap. Her response kept the pelican quite until it returned to the Ashes To Ashes.

"There... using children?" Samantha asked, slightly shocked at the statement.

"Air recon and ODST recon shows that they are allowing kids of age 15 to join the army." Her ensign, the woman one from earlier, reported. The captain gave a audible sigh.

"This world, if it is a different dimension like the ensign said, could be our only hope at finding help." She sighed, closing her eyes. Suddenly she opened them and turned to her ensign. "I have a idea. We use two of our men to infiltrate their community and army. Then when we want to show ourselves we will have the advantage."

"Ma'am, we have no one the age of 15." The woman ensign replied

"Recon did say that the kids were going in 2 months correct?" Samantha asked, the ensign nodded her reply. "Then we have two months to forge some documents."

"We don't even have any documents to forge off of and who would we send?" the male ensign asked

"We will have a team infiltrate the nearest government building to the drop point and I believe we already have the two soldiers. Corporal Lily Simmons and Jacob Kesh. Both work well together, some of the best ODST's on the ship and are the youngest ODST's. They will do fine, I know they can pull off acting like a 15 year old."

"Yes Ma'am."

Two months later and Lily and Jacob stood in a row with other cadets as they entered boot camp. 5 weeks ago a team of ODST's breached a nearby government building and stole the papers they would have needed to forge. The end result was now the two ODST's were in training. 'This is going to be fun...' They both thought

Hours later and the two sat down in the mess hall. Most of the kids sat around this boy called Eren as he talked about a attack the 'Titans' pulled that resulted in them losing a entire wall to them. The two ODST's on the other had just sat a table away eating their dinner. "These kids haven't seen death, if they saw what the Covenant did..." Jacob stopped for a few seconds before resuming his dinner.

"Just be glad they haven't had to." Lily replied, her long red hair tied up into a doughnut.

"Yeah..." Jacob stared down at his plate of dinner. The rest of the dinner was quite.

Later that night within the boys barracks the boys picked their beds. Jacob picked his one quickly, Back of the room, no window and easily defensible area. He sighed and took of his top.

His chest was covered in wounds and scars. Healed plasma burns, stab scars and all other types of scars. He traced over one that went across his heart. He remembered he got it when he got stabbed by Lily in training, it wasn't deep so it didn't actually hit anything bad but he was out of commission for a few days. He sighed as he moved his hand back onto his lap. Then he realized thatt the room had went silent. He turned to see all the boys staring at him. "What?"

"Uhh..." One of the boys, Armin, Jacob thought his name was, asked "How did you get those..."

Jacob looked down at his chest and then back to them. "You don't need to know." Jacob said smiling. "Whelp, good night." He quickly got into bed, the boys then returning back to what they were doing before hand.

Jacob ran his hand down his leg until he found his pistol, holstered onto his leg. He smiled knowing that he was able to defend himself. 'This could get good.'

AN: And that's Chapter one. What do you guys think? Tell me what you think in the reviews. All criticism welcome. By the way, Here's Jacob and Lily's bios for anyone who wants to know a bit more but it will not be detailed since we will find out more about the two ODST's through out the story. Note that UNSC colony planets Darkine XI and Likis are made up colony worlds of the UNSC.

Name: Jacob Kesh

Age: 19

Nationality: Born New Atheon, Colony world of Likis.

Rank: Corporal

Eye Colour: Dark blue

Hair colour: Blonde

Bio: Jacob is a fighter. He was one of the youngest troopers, along with his squad mate and childhood friend Lily Simmons, to pass into the ODST's.

Name: Lily Simmons

Age: 19

Nationality: Born New Atheon, Colony world of Likis.

Rank: Corporal

Eye Colour: Golden brown

Hair colour: Light Red

Bio: Lily is a kind, sweet girl who is always nice, However she is also a fierce fighter and defender of her team-mates. She is quite fond of her squad mate Jacob, who, along with her, were two of the youngest to pass into the ODST's.